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Suceava sent together envoys to Persia, to Shah Ismael, Bayezid’s great rival.
Soon afterwards, Wladislaw managed to avoid, at the last moment, a direct
confrontation between Bogdan III and Radu IV, due the mediation of the royal
envoy, the former Serbian despote, George Branković (now the monk Maxim),
related to both Radu and Bogdan (in case Maxim’s mission failed, the Hungarian
troops had been instructed to attack Radu). A few months earlier, Radu’s envoys
had complained about Bogdan’s ‘behavior’ as far as Venice and Rome. The
republic and the papacy were viewed by Radu as the only powers able to calm
Bogdan down. Bogdan III’s political confidence had grown over the last two
years 3 .
In order to fortify his regional and domestic positions, Bogdan had
planned as early as mid 1505 to marry the youngest sister of the Jagellonian
brothers, Elisabeth. He counted on Venice’s and namely on Rome’s support.
The two had refused to support a general Christian (Polish, in particular, and
Hungarian) action against him, in the late autumn of 1504, when Bogdan III
still fought for his Moldavian throne. Bogdan had turned to Julius II for support
3 E.g. Archiwum Glowne Akt Dawnych, Warsaw, (AGAD), Dokumenty Pergaminowe (D.P.)
Hungaria, nos. 5595-5596, 5621 (28 th of May 1507; copies: Magyar Országos Levéltár, Budapest
(MOL), (U section) Diplomatikai Fényképgyűjtemény (DF), [nos.] 289016-289017, 289021);
Eötvös Loránd Tudományos Egyeteme Könyvtár, Budapest, Codices, Diplomatarium
Autographum, O8, ff. 94 r -95 v [early 1508; copy: MOL, DF 283446]; Eudoxiu de Hurmuzaki,
Documente privitoare la istoria românilor, XV-1, Acte şi scrisori din arhivele oraşelor ardelene
Bistriţa, Braşov, Sibiiu, 1358-1600, editor Nicolae Iorga, Bucharest, 1911, no. 327, p. 177-179
(Hurmuzaki); Actae et epistolae relationum Transylvaniae Hungariaeque cum Moldavia et
Valachia (=Fontes Rerum Transylvanicarum, IV, VI), I, 1468-1540, edited by Endre Veress,
Budapest, 1914, nos. 65-72, p. 83-97 (especially no. 68, p. 85); Carol Göllner, Turcica. Die
europäischen Türkendruke des XVI. Jahrhunderts, I, 1501-1550, Bucharest- Baden Baden, 1961,
no. 32, p. 34-35; Materialy do dziejów dyplomacji polskiej z lat 1486-1516 (Kodeks Zagržebski),
edited by Jószef Garbacik Wroclaw-Warsaw-Krakow, 1966, nos. 48-50, p. 148-163 (especially
no. 48, p. 151-153); nos. 53-54, p. 165-166 (Materialy); [Bernard Wapowski], Chronicorum
Bernardii Vapovii partem posteriorem 1480-1535, edited by J[ózef]. Szujki, in Scriptores Rerum
Polonicarum, Krakow, II, 1874, p. 66-68, 82-83 (Wapowski); Letopiseţul anonim al Ţării
Moldovei, Cronica lui Macarie, in Cronicile slavo-române din secolele XV-XVI publicate de
Ioan Bogdan, edited by P[etre]. P[etre]. Panaitescu, Bucharest, 1959, p. 23-24, 91-92 (Cronicile);
Sanudo, VII, cols. 8, 120, 232, 301; Lajos Tardy, Beyond the Ottoman Empire. 14 th -16 th Century
Diplomacy Szeged, 1978, p. 118-119, 122-123 note 6; Matei Cazacu, Poziţia internaţională a
Ţării Româneşti şi implicaţiile ei poloneze la începutul secolului al XVI-lea. Pe marginea unui
document, in Buletinul Bibliotecii Române din Freiburg, XI (XV), 1984, p. 299-316 (especially
in this case p. 304-310).